it's pretty stupid that you can't detach your weapon mods... in real life this would be a simple matter.

anybody have any idea how to change this? I was thinking, one way could be to create a container or something, and if you put your weapon in the container it replaces the weapon with the "clean" one. That's doable to mod. But i'm not familiar with FNV scripting, is there a way for the game to detect which weapon mod is attached to a weapon?

I like this idea. simply for the fact that I have sold upgraded weapons because I needed the inventory space, and then later regretted it. Being able to strip down the weapon AND keep the mods would be nice. But I think you should need to have somewhat of a Repair skill to do so.

Perhaps it could be scripted in such a way that you can just do it from your inventory? Kind of treat it as an equipped item? I dunno.

you don't need repair skill to detach things like silencers and extended magazines, unless your character's intelligence is in the negative.

This is a really good idea. I would like to be able to take mods off when repairing so I don't repair the wrong weapon (with jury riging), which has happened.

This would probably be hard to do, since the game doesnt seem to notice if a weapon has a weapon mod on it, like if you put a fully modded laser rifle into a box, type in showinventory it will give you an item code, and if use use that item code to add another it is an unmodded one, so it would probably be easier to take the mods off, but not let you keep them, but i dont know much about scripting or NVSE so i guess anything is possible, you just have to wait for one of the geniuses around these forums to decide to make the mod .

Perhaps if there was a way to script the game to keep track in a very discrete manner? I dunno.

Would it be difficult to make a container that duplicates anything put into it, then removes the original weapon? That seems like a simple solution.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is zero point in removing a weapon mod if you don't get the mod back...

Nope... you get your weapon back unmodded, that's the point. I don't want my silencer to be attached all the time.

In which case the quoted comment stands. There's no point removing a weapon mod if you don't get the mod back.

there absolutely is a point, which i just told you about. by the way, real silencers don't last as long as you'd think too.